Kitchen STAFF

Sheepscot General is a MOFGA-certified organic vegetable farm and modern country store with a bakery and cafe.  We love our community and our customers:  they have enthusiastic appreciation for our breads, our chocolate chip cookies, our bagels, our corned beef reuben, our pizza.  The food we produce is made from the ground up, thoughtfully developed from the best recipes, and using seasonal ingredients from the farm.  

We are looking for that special person who thrives on variety to join our kitchen team.  Are you a jack of all trades who would flourish in a small venue?  Do you have the light touch of a pastry-maker as well as the muscle of a bread-baker?  Is your answer to “Savory or Sweet?” “Both!”?  Come and join our team at Sheepscot General.  


To apply:

  • Please email or hand-deliver your resume and cover letter. 

This job is:

  • Full-time

  • A mix of mornings, afternoon/evenings, weekends, and some holidays 

The benefits are:

  • Wages: competitive, with experience 

  • Employee discounts

  • Working with a dynamic and supportive team 

  • Accrued paid time off

  • Option for matching retirement funds

  • Option for dental insurance

  • Training and development opportunities

You are: 

  • Clean and organized 

  • Punctual and reliable

  • Able to create and follow lists for the day and week that accurately reflect needed production workload

  • Capable of assessing inventory, consolidating, and rotating supplies

  • Someone who has a comprehensive understanding and skill in sourdough bread production: starter maintenance, dough mixing and retarding, high hydration bread forming, scoring, and baking

  • Proficient in pie making, cookies, pastries, and cakes

  • Able to follow established recipes and create new ones for the bakery and deli using seasonal ingredients from the farm and grocery 

  • Someone who has comfort and competency with various kitchen equipment, including mixers, slicer, food processor, blender, gas ovens and stove

  • Able to communicate to the kitchen manager if repair and maintenance of equipment and kitchen tools is necessary

  • Able to observe and act on needs related to inventory and production levels

  • Able to observe and act on cleaning activities including daily upkeep and ongoing deep cleaning

  • Someone who has an understanding of food safety practices

  • Able to make handsome food while working at steady clip

Our ideal candidate has a compelling desire to make seriously good food.  We love to talk about food and all its aspects:  where it comes from, who does it best, what goes with what.  We have gluten-free options that taste so good it’s what we prefer.  We are curious, enthusiastic about learning, and strive to improve our products.  If there’s something we don’t know or are unsure about, we ask.  Always looking to be able to serve our customers a delightful variety of food (and because we like to make All The Things), we work on time management skills.  We communicate with coworkers, managers and the owners so we all know how we’re doing.  

Requirements and qualifications:

  • Minimum of 2 years experience as a baker and/or prep cook, or related

  • Weekend availability

  • Demonstrated enthusiasm for teamwork

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Ability to lift 50 lbs above waist

  • Ability to spend continual time standing and walking

  • Ability to accurately scale ingredients

  • Ability to mix and shape pastries by hand

  • Ability to focus on tasks and take verbal direction

  • Ability to follow lists and written direction

  • Experience in scratch baking

 

Farm Crew  

Sheepscot General is a MOFGA-certified organic vegetable farm and modern country store with a bakery and cafe.  We are entering our fourteenth season in business. We love our community and our customers. Our farm operation includes 1 acre of intensively managed vegetables, 3 high tunnels, larger field crops like pumpkins, onions, pick-your-own strawberries, and hemp. This position focuses on working alongside the vegetable production manager to implement the farm plan and maintain the store’s produce display. 

Requirements & Qualifications:

- Willingness to work both alone and with others while maintaining efficiency and focus 

- Ability to work at a sustained quick pace throughout the day

- Comfortable communicating. We are a small team and a lot of the time, we are working solo on separate tasks. We check in with each other many times throughout the day. 

-Whether working solo or together, being comfortable reaching out to ask clarifying questions, asking for help when needed, checking in when something is taking longer than expected, and communicating when a task is not completed are all helpful in making the farm day run smoothly and efficiently.

-punctual and reliable

-ability to receive detailed verbal information about a task and then carry out the task to completion

-ability to receive a task list (verbal or written) and move through the list on your own (knowing you can always check in with any questions)

-enthusiasm and pride in what we do

-clear communication outside of the actual work is also important: time off requests with a good amount of notice, letting the farm know when you are running late, etc.  

-willingness to work in various weather conditions

-ability to work physically each day. We occasionally need to lift 50lbs (though we try to use farm equipment to do most of our heavy lifting to maintain physical sustainability through the season)

Hours:

20 hours (3 days)/week 

Full time position begins May and goes through the end of October. 

Application details and deadline
Rolling application, no deadline. To apply, please reach out to sheepscotgeneral@gmail.com with your interest in working with us, your resume or work experience, and your references.